Behind the webcam’s watchful eye, online proctoring takes hold
Hailey Schnorr has spent years peering into the bedrooms, kitchens, and dorm rooms of students via Webcam.
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Students Ready to Fight Bill That Would Create Higher-Fee Classes
Students and faculty are gearing up for a fight to oppose legislation that would allow California community colleges to charge more for high-demand courses during summer and winter sessions.
Police probe taped sexual encounter at Pr. George’s high school
Prince George’s County police and school officials are investigating an incident in which a sexual encounter between students was videotaped in a bathroom at Frederick Douglass High School ...
China says aims to banish superstition, promote knowledge
China is struggling to get its estimated 100 million religious believers to banish superstitious beliefs about things like sickness and death ...
How do you spell Singapore without “LKY”?
They crammed into an art cafe in Singapore and pulled no punches, deriding authoritarian officials who ruled with an "iron fist" and complaining that government ministers with million-dollar salaries were out of touch.
Space harpoon plan to nail orbital garbage
What do you do with 6,000 tons of space junk traveling at thousands of miles an hour? Harpoon it of course.
US ‘turns blind eye to human rights’
China slammed the human rights record of the United States on Sunday in response to a Washington report, saying the US turned a blind eye to its own woeful situation while posing as "the world judge of human rights".
Colleges as country clubs
Today's plush campuses ply students with absurdly lavish goods and services. No wonder it's so hard for them to pay their bills when they get out in the real world.
US Graduate schools stung by drop in Chinese applications
Slowing graduate-school enrollments, including a 5 percent decline in applications from China for fall 2013, are hurting the revenues of many U.S. universities ...
Boston bombing suspects showed few radical signs
The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings are ethnic Chechen brothers who spent much of their lives away from the breakaway Russian republic ...
